Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld(
Book
)15
editions published
between
2011
and
2012
in
English
and held by
1,978 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments -- his success in seizing India's
imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers
paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country's minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.
Joseph Lelyveld shows how Gandhi's sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on
another subcontinent -- during two decades in South Africa -- and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him
as a Mahatma, or "Great Soul," while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned.
The man himself emerges as one of history's most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a
loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the last months of this
leader's long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath
of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination. India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a
pedestal as "Father of the Nation" but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to
leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables -- for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole -- produced their own
leaders. Here is a reconsideration of Gandhi's struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes,
and of his ever-evolving legacy

His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld(
Book
)13
editions published
between
2016
and
2017
in
English
and held by
1,388 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, never more so than at the end of his life. Here, in
an insightful account, a prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing
how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem
to their climax. The story has been told piecemeal but never like this, with a close focus on Roosevelt himself and his hopes
for a stable international order after the war, and how these led him into a prolonged courtship of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet
dictator, involving secret, arduous journeys to Tehran and the Crimea. In between, as the war entered its final phase, came
the thunderbolt of a dire medical diagnosis, raising urgent questions about the ability of the longest-serving president to
stand for a fourth term at a time when he had little choice. Neither his family nor top figures in his administration were
informed of his diagnosis, let alone the public or his closest ally, Winston Churchill. With D-Day looming, Roosevelt took
a month off on a plantation in the South where he was examined daily by a navy cardiologist, then waited two more months before
finally announcing, on the eve of his party's convention, that he'd be a candidate. A political grand master still, he manipulated
the selection of a new running mate, with an eye to a possible succession, displaying some of his old vigor and wit in a winning
campaign. With precision and compassion, Joseph Lelyveld examines the choices Roosevelt faced, shining new light on his state
of mind, preoccupations, and motives, both as leader of the wartime alliance and in his personal life. Confronting his own
mortality, Roosevelt operated in the belief that he had a duty to see the war through to the end, telling himself he could
always resign if he found he couldn't carry on. Lelyveld delivers an incisive portrait of this deliberately inscrutable man,
a consummate leader to the very last."--Jacket

Omaha blues : a memory loop by Joseph Lelyveld(
Book
)7
editions published
between
2005
and
2013
in
English
and held by
504 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The son of a Cleveland rabbi explores his family history, presenting a candid portrayal of his father, who walked a tenuous
line between his politics and his public role as a clergyman

Move your shadow : South Africa, Black and white by Joseph Lelyveld(
Book
)41
editions published
between
1985
and
1990
in
7
languages
and held by
321 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Belletristik : Südafrika (Republik) ; Aufzeichnung (1980/83)

Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld(
Recording
)9
editions published
between
2011
and
2012
in
English
and held by
234 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician
and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about
his place in Indian history

Young Americans abroad by Roger H Klein(
Book
)4
editions published
between
1963
and
1971
in
English
and held by
227 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld(
Recording
)5
editions published
in
2016
in
English
and held by
166 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
With a built in skepticism and a respect for evidence, Joseph Lelyveld leads us deeper into the thickly forested interior
at the end of the life of Franklin Roosevelt. This is for anyone who wants to understand one of the most consequential, and
most mysterious presidents

House of bondage by Ernest Cole(
Book
)6
editions published
between
1967
and
1968
in
English
and held by
15 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The oppression suffered by blacks in South Africa is compellingly reported in text and photographs

Chiropody (podiatry) by Joseph Lelyveld(
Book
)1
edition published
in
1941
in
English
and held by
11 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Great soul by Joseph Lelyveld(
)2
editions published
between
2011
and
2013
in
English
and held by
4 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments'his success
in seizing India's imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that
few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country's minorities, outcasts,
and rural poor. Pulitzer Prize'winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi's sense of mission, social
values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent'during two decades in South Africa'and
then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or "Great Soul," while following him only a small
part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history's most remarkable self-creations,
a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us
step-by-step through the heroic'and tragic'last months of this selfless leader's long campaign when his nonviolent efforts
culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his
own assassination. India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as "Father of the Nation" but were less
inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables'for
whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole'produced their own leaders. Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi's
extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy,
which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India's social conscience'and not just India's. From
the Hardcover edition

Allan Boesak, choosing for justice(
Visual
)2
editions published
in
1988
in
English
and held by
3 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Allan Boesak is a young minister in the colored branch of the segregated Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa. He is also
the president of the 70 million member World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and in 1983 helped found the United Democratic
Front (UDF) to work against Apartheid for a free, united and democratic South Africa. He wants the Church to be an agent of
change and liberation, and worked successfully to have Apartheid declared a heresy by the World Alliance. This documentary
presents a biographical profile of Boesak and also his views in a candid interview. Includes archival film-clips showing the
struggle against Apartheid, and comments by friends and supporters such as Beyers Naudé